Registered Nurse (RN) - Critical Care Unit
About The Position
Encino Hospital Medical Center, a member of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, is a 150-bed hospital in Encino, California, serving a diverse population with inpatient and outpatient services. The hospital describes its environment as caring and its healthcare as innovative and integrated. The Registered Nurse provides safe, direct patient care in the Critical Care Unit using the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The RN is accountable for assigned patients, maintains standards of care and patient confidentiality, and directs and supports patient and family teaching as well as the activities of other nursing personnel. The RN communicates changes in patients’ clinical conditions to physicians, including hemodynamic monitoring, diagnostic study results, abnormal results, and symptoms, and responds promptly and accurately to changes in condition or treatment response.
Requirements
- Current and valid state RN license.
- Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain it as current.
- Basic Arrhythmia Interpretation within 30 days of hire.
- Current ACLS certificate within 30 days of hire and maintain it as current.
- Minimum of one year as a staff RN in an acute care hospital; critical care experience preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Completion of a Critical Care Course.
- Critical Care RN (CCRN) certification.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- Critical care experience.
Responsibilities
- Deliver safe patient care using assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Provide direct patient care within the scope of practice.
- Direct and guide patient and family teaching and the activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining ICU standards of care.
- Take direct responsibility and accountability for the care of assigned patients.
- Communicate changes in patients’ clinical condition to physicians, including hemodynamic monitoring, diagnostic study results, abnormal results, and symptoms.
- Respond quickly and accurately to changes in patient condition or response to treatment.
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
Benefits
- Paid time off.
- 401K retirement plan.
- Medical coverage.
- Dental coverage.
- Vision coverage.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Additional voluntary benefit options.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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